Legume-cereal intercropping for sustainable agriculture across Europe (LEGUMINOSE)

由于传统耕作制度面临土壤质量恶化、生物多样性丧失和生态系统服务功能下降的问题，迫切需要改变耕作方式，使之成为更可持续、更高产的耕作制度。间作提高了生物多样性，最大限度地提高了土地生产力，优化了农业生态系统中的生物地球化学循环，但尚未得到欧洲农民的认可。以豆科植物为基础的间作利用了生物多样性和伴生植物之间的协同效应，同时减少了外部投入。LEGUMINOSE的一个主要目标是通过提供促进豆类-谷物间作的经济、环境和社会效益的知识和示范，确定间作的障碍，提高农民的接受度。LEGUMINOSE将通过关注农药减少、植物-微生物介导的元素循环、土壤健康改善以及作物质量和健康来评估间作潜力。为了克服实施间作的障碍，我们将在欧洲（IT、DE、DR、ES、PL、CZ、UK）、埃及和巴基斯坦的不同土壤气候带建立一个由6个田间试验和农场实验室（每个国家20个农场；180个农场试验）组成的网络。此外，我们将整合遥感和作物模型来调查农田，提高田间规模的结果，并创建一个基于网络的间作决策支持系统。将与各利益攸关方合作，评估和传播豆类间作系统的经济、生态和社会效益，并向从农场到决策者进行国际推广。我们将认可并参与整个价值链，探索和试验间作产品的创新营销策略。LEGUMINOSE将为欧洲农业的生态集约化做出贡献，为以豆类为基础的间作系统提供科学、农民主导和经济上可行的改造。

As conventional cropping systems face deterioration of soil quality, loss of biodiversity, and declining ecosystem services, there isan urgent need to change practices to more sustainable yet productive systems. Intercropping enhances biodiversity, maximizes landproductivity, and optimizes biogeochemical cycles in agroecosystems, but is lacking acceptance from European farmers. Legume-basedintercropping takes advantage of biological diversity and synergistic effects between companion plants while reducing external inputs. Amajor objective of LEGUMINOSE is to identify the obstacles to intercropping and enhance farmers’ acceptance by providing knowledgeand demonstrations that promote economic, environmental, and social benefits of legume-cereal intercropping. LEGUMINOSE willassess intercropping potential by focusing on pesticide reduction, plant-microbe mediated element cycling, soil health improvement, andcrop quality and health. To overcome barriers to intercropping implementation, we will establish a network of six field trials and farmlabs (20 farms in each country; 180 on-farm trials) in different pedo-climatic zones across Europe (IT, DE, DR, ES, PL, CZ, UK), Egypt,and Pakistan. Furthermore, we will integrate remote sensing and crop modelling to survey fields, upscale the field-scale results, andcreate a web-based decision support system on intercropping. In collaboration with various stakeholders, legume-intercropping systems'economical, ecological, and social gains will be assessed and disseminated with international outreach from farm-level to policymakers.We will recognize and involve the whole value chain to explore and test innovative marketing strategies for the products of intercropping.LEGUMINOSE will contribute to the ecological intensification of European agriculture by providing science-based, farmer-led, andeconomically viable transformations for legume-based intercropping systems.